Psalms 58
1 For the end. Destroy not: by David, for a memorial. If you do indeed speak righteousness, [then] do you judge rightly, you sons of men.
In finem, Ne disperdas, David in tituli inscriptionem. Si vere utique iustitiam loquimini: recta iudicate filii hominum.
2 For you work iniquities in [your] hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.
Etenim in corde iniquitates operamini: in terra iniustitias manus vestræ concinnant.
3 Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.
Alienati sunt peccatores a vulva, erraverunt ab utero: locuti sunt falsa.
4 Their venom is like [that] of a serpent; as [that] of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;
Furor illis secundum similitudinem serpentis: sicut aspidis surdæ, et obturantis aures suas,
5 which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor [heed] the charm prepared skilfully by the wise.
quæ non exaudiet vocem incantantium: et venefici incantantis sapienter.
6 God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions.
Deus conteret dentes eorum in ore ipsorum: molas leonum confringet Dominus.
7 They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail.
Ad nihilum devenient tamquam aqua decurrens: intendit arcum suum donec infirmentur.
8 They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.
Sicut cera, quæ fluit, auferentur: supercecidit ignis, et non viderunt solem.
9 Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.
Priusquam intelligerent spinæ vestræ rhamnum: sicut viventes, sic in ira absorbet eos.
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance of the ungodly: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.
Lætabitur iustus cum viderit vindictam: manus suas lavabit in sanguine peccatoris.
11 And a man shall say, Verily then there is a reward for the righteous: verily there is a God that judges them in the earth.
Et dicet homo: Si utique est fructus iusto: utique est Deus iudicans eos in terra.
